Out of all the research topics I have previously considered, I finally decided my topic! I took information from my third idea, “Examine the way technical writing is used in legal writing,” and information from my capstone to explore the idea I have come up with. I have decided to explore the rhetoric in advocacy between ASFA and Family First in Family Law, specifically Guardian ad Litem. By doing this, I am going to be exploring the rhetoric within court documents and personal one-on-one interviews. I will use this research to describe how rhetoric is used throughout ASFA and Family First individually, since they explain two completely different ways of solving a case. Because they are so different, they also use different ways to persuade judges, and that is where I will be looking at the specific documents, and other information mentioned previously. I will see how rhetoric within the Professional and Technical Writing department plays a role in this specific law. Below are ten secondary sources I will be using to start my research! The first two are my priority. One is a book given by an attorney I intern for, and another is a website that includes tons of forms that I will be analyzing. The rest of the sources could change, but I am hoping to use at least the first two sources.
1. Gupta-Kagan,
Josh, et al. Child Welfare Law and Practice: Representing Children, Parents,
and Agencies in Neglect, Abuse, and Dependency Cases. 4 ed., National
Association of Counsel for Children, 2022
2. Utah
Office of Guardian ad Litem Forms (utcourts.gov)
3. Ideology
and Rhetoric Replace Science and Reason in Some Parental Alienatio...:
EBSCOhost
Ideology
and Rhetoric Replace Science and Reason in Some Parental Alienation Literature
and Advocacy: A Critique Written by Madelyn S. Milchman, Robert Geffner, and Joan
S. Meier
4.
viewcontent.cgi
(columbia.edu) Reforming Family Court: Getting it Right Between Rhetoric
and Reality
7. https://doi.org/10.1177/1050651920932198 Legally
Minded Technical Communicators: A Case Study of a Legal Writing Course
8. https://doi.org/10.1177/1050651908315980
Making Academic Work Advocacy Work: Technologies of Power in the Public Arena
9. https://doi.org/10.1177/10506519211044195 Curricular
Efforts in Technical Communication after the Social Justice Turn
10. https://doi.org/10.1177/0047281616639472 The Technical Communicator as Advocate: Integrating a Social Justice Approach in Technical Communication
